‘When they created the new (dental) contract in 2006, they wanted to simplify it – the problem is it actually got more complicated,’ Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen, chair of the General Dental Practice Committee, said.

‘There are a hell of a lot of tick boxes and targets.

‘What we’re seeing with dentists generally is that dentists are getting more and more stressed trying to fill these criteria.

‘More and more practices are not hitting targets.

‘So what we are seeing now is that over a quarter of dental practices are paying money back to the NHS – clawback – because they haven’t hit their targets.’

Seb Evans

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Seb moved to FMC at the start of 2014. He is the editor of dentistry.co.uk, assistant editor of Dentistry magazine and editor of Dentistry Scotland.
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